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The Shack

By Wm Paul Young

Paperback

£9.99

The powerful bestselling novel of how a grief-stricken man's encounter with God changes his life forever.

With 18 million copies sold worldwide, THE SHACK is an international bestseller that explores life's toughest questions through the gripping story of one man's struggle to find answers to his suffering.

Mack's youngest daughter, Missy, was abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, still trapped in his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack. Against his better judgement Mack arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon. What he finds there will change his life forever.

THE SHACK wrestles with the timeless question, 'Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?' Mack's experiences when he faces up to his darkest nightmares will astound you, and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.

This is the kind of book you'll want to tell everyone about. Millions have discovered it already - now it's your turn.

Biographical Notes

Wm Paul Young was born in Canada but raised among a technologically stone-aged tribe by his missionary parents in the highlands of what was New Guinea. He suffered great loss as a child and young adult, and now enjoys the 'wastefulness of grace' with his family in the US Pacific Northwest.

Other details

ISBN:
9780340979495

Publication date:
17 Jul 2008

Page count:
256

Imprint:
Hodder Windblown

'Brilliant! One of the most faith-enhancing books I have ever read' — Bear Grylls

'Clearly the book is speaking loud and clear to a lot of people' — The Independent

Bunyanesque ... bold, imaginative, humane and funny. — Church Times

This book has the potential to do for our generation what John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress did for his. It's that good! — Eugene Peterson

'This is the most heart-warming, inspirational story I have read in decades. If you only read one book in the next year....read THE SHACK' — J.John

'By far the most captivating, deliciously written and theologically refreshing page turner of a novel I have ever read.' — Gerald Coates, Pioneer

'Dangerous, dangerous way to do off-the-hook theology, I love it! It's not just what happens when a theologian becomes storyteller: this is what happens when a survivor who has experienced God decides to tell a story. This should be required reading in spirituality/theodicy classes everywhere. The Shack will quickly become a modern classic, and it will inspire imitators. But very few will match the competence of this work.' — Siku

THE SHACK is the most absorbing work of fiction I've read in many years. My wife and I laughed, cried and repented of our own lack of faith along the way. THE SHACK will leave you craving for the presence of God. — Michael W. Smith, Recording Artist

This story reads like a prayer - like the best kind of prayer, filled with sweat and wonder and transparency and surprise. If you read one work of fiction this year, let this be it. — Mike Morrell, Zoecarnate.com

Reading THE SHACK during a very difficult transition in my life, this story has blown the door wide open to my soul. — Wynonna Judd, Recording Artist

Hodder & Stoughton

Cross Roads Reflections

Wm Paul Young

Cross Roads Audio Book

Wm Paul Young

Authors:

Wm Paul Young

Multi-millionaire Anthony Spencer is trapped in a coma and finds himself in a surreal world that reflects the skewed priorities of the life he's lived on earth where he meets a stranger who turns out to be Jesus and a grandmother who is the Holy Spirit.Pleading for a second chance, he is sent back to earth to redeem himself. There he must fight to put right the mess he's created, experiencing events through others' eyes before deciding how to use the miraculous gift he's been given. Before his illness he had set events in motion that he now needs to undo - but will he have the courage to make the right choice?THE SHACK is an international phenomenon, surpassing 1 million copies sold before being picked up by a mainstream publisher: its combination of radical spirituality with a heart-wrenching story made it a word-of-mouth hit, and CROSS ROADS has all the ingredients to repeat its impact.

Cross Roads

Wm Paul Young

Authors:

Wm Paul Young

Multi-millionaire Anthony Spencer is trapped in a coma and finds himself in a surreal world that reflects the skewed priorities of the life he's lived on earth where he meets a stranger who turns out to be Jesus and a grandmother who is the Holy Spirit.Pleading for a second chance, he is sent back to earth to redeem himself. There he must fight to put right the mess he's created, experiencing events through others' eyes before deciding how to use the miraculous gift he's been given. Before his illness he had set events in motion that he now needs to undo - but will he have the courage to make the right choice?THE SHACK is an international phenomenon, surpassing 1 million copies sold before being picked up by a mainstream publisher: its combination of radical spirituality with a heart-wrenching story made it a word-of-mouth hit, and CROSS ROADS has all the ingredients to repeat its impact.

The Shack: Reflections for Every Day of the Year

Wm Paul Young

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